... worse off under plans for massive increases in road tax, the Treasury admitted yesterday. And fewer...to overhaul vehicle excise duty will have little impact on motorists..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033826/Nine-million-car-owne... -- World Carfree Network http://www.worldcarfree.net/ Help for your car-addicted friends...
... to £245 worse off under plans for massive increases in road tax, the Treasury admitted yesterday. And fewer than ... to overhaul vehicle excise duty will have little impact on motorists..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033826/Nine-million-car-owners-hit-tax-rises--times-higher-previously-estimated.html -- World Carfree Network http://www....
...up to £245 worse off under plans for massive increases in road tax, the Treasury admitted yesterday. And fewer than one in ...plans to overhaul vehicle excise duty will have little impact on motorists..." More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1033826/Nine-million-car-owners-hit-tax-rises--times-higher-previously-estimated.html -- World Carfree Network http://www.worldcarfree....
... possible cost is 2,000 quid, which makes its tax of 120 look ridiculously small, a mere 6%%. BTW, I see the AA is still using the out dated and misleading name of 'Road tax' instead of VED. Do you prefer Job Seekers Allowance to Unemployment Benefit then? -- John Wright "What would happen if you eliminated the autism genes from the gene pool? You would have a bunch of ...
... a) demand for cars is very inelastic b) it will increase the fixed cost/variable cost ratio for operating a car. Think about it. People are not going to give up their car just because road tax goes up by a few hundred pounds. However, all car owners will have to pay more per month regardless of how much driving they do. On other words, car owners who do little driving are ...
...lying when they called it a road tax prior to changing its ...At the time it was named "Road Tax" the cash went into ... was solely for maintaining the roads. You can, of course, provide ... was spent solely on maintaining roads, then ceased to be hypothecated ... realistic scenario is that the road fund was fully hypothecated in ... the period from when the road fund was introduced (1928?) up ...
...lying when they called it a road tax prior to changing its name...At the time it was named "Road Tax" the cash went into a...>> was solely for maintaining the roads. You can, of course, provide the... the entire period that it was called road tax (or the ... was spent solely on maintaining roads, then ceased to be hypothecated ... realistic scenario is that the road fund was fully hypothecated in ...
... lying when they called it a road tax prior to changing its name...At the time it was named "Road Tax" the cash went into a...that was solely for maintaining the roads. You can, of course, provide the... the entire period that it was called road tax (or the "... was spent solely on maintaining roads, then ceased to be hypothecated ... realistic scenario is that the road fund was fully hypothecated in ...
Ed Banger wrote: You attach too much significance to the names that the government chooses to give its taxes. Presumably governments were lying when they called it a road tax prior to changing its name to Vehicle Excise Duty then? At the time it was named "Road Tax" the cash went into a fund that was solely for maintaining the roads.
... out dated and misleading name of 'Road tax' instead of VED. It's a tax you pay to use the roads, seems a perfectly reasonable name ... vehicles that are on the public roads. It can be avoided by keeping the vehicle off said roads. Yep, looks like a tax you pay to use the roads all right. Also, 'excise' means a ... to change. It stopped being a road tax many years ago. The ...
